Thoughts from directors around the world.
I’ve always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own. I’m a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 19
As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you’re going to be doing it for two years. —Rob Marshall Continue reading Born On This Day — October 17
I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring. They are the people who see through the double standards, like the kid in … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 15
If you want to know me, see Glen or Glenda. That’s me, that’s my story, no question. But Plan 9 from Outer Space is my pride and joy. —Ed Wood, Jr. Continue reading Born On This Day — October 10
It would be a cliché to say that, because I am a Mexican, I see death in a certain way. But I have seen more than my share of corpses, certainly more than the average First World guy. I worked … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 9
“The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 4
Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn’t. Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later—now—there are not many men like Martin … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 30
I don’t know anything about the way a film is born, nothing about the manner of it, the lying-in, the ‘big bang’, the first three minutes. Whether the images in those first three minutes are born out of their author’s … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 29
I want to direct films that no one else is going to make. I know if I don’t make them, I’m never going to see them. Of course, I hope some people will want to see my movies as well, … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 28
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